American interest in the Olympics took a hit in 2021 during the delayed, sparsely attended, many-hours-distant Tokyo Games. Paris has brought it back with a vengeance.

Japan's oldest person is a 114-year-old retired doctor who carried an Olympic torch in 2021 At 109, Kagawa became one of the oldest torchbearers in Olympic history during the Tokyo 2021 torch relay.

A boat tows giant Olympic rings as they are removed from the waterfront area at Odaiba Marine Park, after the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games came to an end on August 8, in Tokyo, Japan, August 11, 2021.

The Paris Olympics, not surprisingly, proved a fantastic success, with huge crowds that proved quite a contrast to the COVID-19-locked down 2021 Games in Tokyo. Sunday night, the torch was ...